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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump

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Speaker 1: believes Biden was cloned and then executed five years ago.

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Speaker 1: Get out the guys with the butterfly, and that's the

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Speaker 1: President's brain has finally jumped the shark quote. There is

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Speaker 1: no Joe Biden executed in twenty twenty. Biden clones, doubles,

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Speaker 1: and robotic engineered, soulless, mindless entities are what you see.

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Speaker 1: If you hear or read that this was Trump reposting

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Speaker 1: something that some other lunatic wrote on Trump's social media site,

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Speaker 1: or that this was Trump trolling, or this was Trump

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Speaker 1: owning the libs, this is incorrect, and more importantly, it

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Speaker 1: minimizes the severity of Trump's accelerating complete mental breakdown. He

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Speaker 1: believes this, or at least he believed it when he

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Speaker 1: posted it shortly after ten pm Eastern Saturday night, Because

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Speaker 1: if you parse this post of his on his social

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Speaker 1: media site, a dangerous exercise in the best of circumstances,

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Speaker 1: it is clear he did not simply repost something put

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Speaker 1: out earlier in the day by another lunatic with the

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Speaker 1: handle llijh. Most accounts and even Fox News and The

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Speaker 1: New York post had no choice but to write up

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Speaker 1: this disqualifying bout of madness. Most accounts suggest Trump himself

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Speaker 1: added no comment to the original this is incorrect. Unlike

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Speaker 1: the original, Trump's version of this includes a photo he

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Speaker 1: has added. The photo is the avatar from the original

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Speaker 1: Lligh account, a retouched black and white shot of Trump

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Speaker 1: with his current head and its overtone of melting plastic,

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Speaker 1: but with what his eyes looked like forty or fifty

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Speaker 1: with two fingers. The photo in the original post. It's

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Speaker 1: the same photo, but it's in a tiny circular thumbnail,

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Speaker 1: maybe half an inch in diameter. The photo on Trump's

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Speaker 1: version is square and full sized. Trump added to the

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Speaker 1: original post added a photo. If you repost something on

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Speaker 1: Trump's site, the avatar does not automatically blow up to

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Speaker 1: full size like this. This was deliberate. This was done

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Speaker 1: at Trump's end of the equation. Trump did this. It's

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Speaker 1: not just somebody calling themselves l LJH so lost in

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Speaker 1: the quicksand that is the lunatic right that they added

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Speaker 1: seventy hashtags and forty five different account handles, including the

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Speaker 1: hashtags sports and MSNBC. This is not somebody else's work.

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Speaker 1: This is Trump seeing somebody else's work and adding his

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Speaker 1: own photo to it, with his fingers raised in what

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Speaker 1: could be a victory signal. Trump's inability to separate fantasy

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Speaker 1: and wish fulfillment and lies and all the rest from

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Speaker 1: reality comes in all possible forms and flavors, and runs

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Speaker 1: on parallel tracks twenty four hours a day. There are

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Speaker 1: things about which he is always crazy, and things about

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Speaker 1: which he is only periodically crazy, and things he can

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Speaker 1: but wants others to believe. This tends to diminish the

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Speaker 1: fact that all of it is like Trump himself crazy.

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Speaker 1: No matter what your explanation for this is, or mine,

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Speaker 1: or Foxes or his enablers, this country cannot have a

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Speaker 1: president who promulgates theories that his predecessor or anybody else

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Speaker 1: was a clone, or a body double or a robot.

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Speaker 1: The dynamic tension keeping someone this damaged and disturbed from deciding, Hey,

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Speaker 1: the people I like won't be affected. That dynamic tension

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Speaker 1: is the same as the dynamic tension keeping a badly

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Speaker 1: or decades, and then one minute it collapses and kills everybody.

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Speaker 1: And do not assume Trump couldn't possibly actually firmly believe

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Speaker 1: these QAnon theories that he so happily pedals and profits off.

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Speaker 1: Hell this creature. Trump reportedly actually believed Elon Musk when

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Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal now quotes unnamed administration officials who,

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Speaker 1: Musk's promises, quote, was it all bullshit? Of course, it

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Speaker 1: was all bullshit. Musk is bullshit for a moment. Put

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Speaker 1: excerpt from this subtle verification by The Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 1: recognize Musk's default state bullshit. If you are surprised he's nasty,

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Speaker 1: was reportedly peeing his pants NonStop during the election campaign.

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Speaker 1: close friend a year ago, last month, May twenty twenty four. Quote.

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Speaker 1: Around that time, mister Musk told people that his ketamin

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Speaker 1: the conversations, where's the goddamn Jake Tapper book about this.

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Speaker 1: Between this and Trump's revelation that Biden wasn't cognitively challenged

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Speaker 1: What does Jake Tapper do now? Bladder issues last may

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Speaker 1: Efficiency or the Department of Government p efficiency? Am I

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Speaker 1: right to again quote The Times? Mister Musk's drug consumption

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Speaker 1: taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was

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Speaker 1: what kind of effect could it have on somebody's bladder?

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Speaker 1: I think your bladder's on the fritz. Elon, please point

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Speaker 1: yourself in the other direction. We know from the Wall

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Speaker 1: A quick thought experiment for you, say this is in

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Speaker 1: The question is when did the Fox News News Max

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Speaker 1: saying going. Moreover, whenever it did stop, it would only

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Speaker 1: not treated in that way. Top Trump advisor pees his pants?

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Speaker 1: Why did Trump select him? What's wrong with Trump? Quote?

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Speaker 1: Musk traveled with a daily medication box that held about

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Speaker 1: This is what scientists using technical jargon call a quote

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Speaker 1: get rid of it. The guy this time is an outsider,

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Speaker 1: a councilman named Zoran Mamdani. I have never done an

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Speaker 1: actual endorsement before in nearly three years of this podcast.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's usually obvious, but I am endorsing Zoran

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00:34:02,435 --> 00:34:06,155
Speaker 1: Mamdani for mayor. In fact, I am endorsing the idea

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00:34:06,155 --> 00:34:08,315
Speaker 1: that the other Democrats in the race should drop out

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00:34:08,355 --> 00:34:12,035
Speaker 1: and endorse him themselves, because this city will not survive

433
00:34:13,475 --> 00:34:18,595
Speaker 1: ten minutes of Mayor Andrew Cuomo. I thought all those

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00:34:18,595 --> 00:34:23,555
Speaker 1: guys with TV cameras were protesters. Yeah, it's possible that

435
00:34:23,675 --> 00:34:28,035
Speaker 1: he's that stupid the winner though, speaking of that stupid

436
00:34:28,195 --> 00:34:33,515
Speaker 1: worst Jake Tapper, this is how far this has gotten,

437
00:34:33,755 --> 00:34:37,875
Speaker 1: and this is how far Jake Tapper has plummeted and

438
00:34:38,075 --> 00:34:44,955
Speaker 1: continues to plummet. James Comer on Fox News, a man

439
00:34:45,035 --> 00:34:48,315
Speaker 1: who looks and sounds like he has sustained a serious

440
00:34:48,355 --> 00:34:53,955
Speaker 1: concussion every day of his life, Joe Biden wasn't a

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00:34:55,795 --> 00:35:00,195
Speaker 1: melonly fit to make these decisions. More and more evidence

442
00:35:00,275 --> 00:35:04,595
Speaker 1: coming out from Jake Tapper, the other whistle blowers in

443
00:35:04,675 --> 00:35:09,955
Speaker 1: in the administration, and then Comer went off into a

444
00:35:10,035 --> 00:35:13,795
Speaker 1: rant about acuity, as if he'd ever had any acuity

445
00:35:14,395 --> 00:35:18,675
Speaker 1: or knew what it actually meant. The current president thinks

446
00:35:18,795 --> 00:35:22,955
Speaker 1: the phrase political asylum means you were in a nuthouse

447
00:35:23,075 --> 00:35:26,915
Speaker 1: in another country. He thinks he aced a mental test

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00:35:27,275 --> 00:35:30,035
Speaker 1: that is given to determine whether or not people should

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00:35:30,075 --> 00:35:34,275
Speaker 1: be detained against their will because they were a danger

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00:35:34,315 --> 00:35:37,155
Speaker 1: to themselves and others if they were allowed outside the

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00:35:37,155 --> 00:35:39,995
Speaker 1: front door of the hospital. But he aced it. He

452
00:35:40,115 --> 00:35:44,555
Speaker 1: thinks he's a stable genius and it's all genetics, and

453
00:35:44,595 --> 00:35:47,675
Speaker 1: because he had an uncle who taught at MIT or something,

454
00:35:47,875 --> 00:35:52,835
Speaker 1: that means he's a genius. That's the current guy and

455
00:35:52,875 --> 00:35:55,675
Speaker 1: the people around him covering up for the fact that

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00:35:55,795 --> 00:36:00,635
Speaker 1: he's a moron. But instead we're talking about the last guy,

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00:36:01,115 --> 00:36:06,475
Speaker 1: who primarily is no longer president, at whose acuity has

458
00:36:06,515 --> 00:36:11,035
Speaker 1: never at its lowest point dipped down as far as

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00:36:11,115 --> 00:36:15,355
Speaker 1: Trump's highest point. But this is what Jake Tapper is

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00:36:15,475 --> 00:36:18,995
Speaker 1: fixated on. This is what Jake Tapper is trying to

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00:36:19,035 --> 00:36:24,195
Speaker 1: make blood money off of This results in Jake Tapper

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00:36:24,275 --> 00:36:30,315
Speaker 1: being quoted by James fing comer, do you see what

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00:36:30,395 --> 00:36:36,635
Speaker 1: you've done? Tapper? You fraud? America sees the lead with

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00:36:36,875 --> 00:36:41,035
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper his show on CNN. I know it's a surprise.

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00:36:41,475 --> 00:36:46,195
Speaker 1: CNN is still on the lead with Jake Tapper averaged

466
00:36:46,235 --> 00:36:50,555
Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty five thousand total viewers from April

467
00:36:50,595 --> 00:36:55,595
Speaker 1: twenty eight through May twenty fifth. That is one quarter

468
00:36:55,795 --> 00:36:59,555
Speaker 1: down from the CNN audience in that time slot last year,

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00:36:59,795 --> 00:37:03,875
Speaker 1: admittedly at perhaps the peak of the entire Biden's story,

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00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:06,995
Speaker 1: but that itself should be an indicator of how few

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00:37:07,035 --> 00:37:10,355
Speaker 1: people give up f about the Biden story today. It

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00:37:10,435 --> 00:37:13,875
Speaker 1: is not today's news and it has no relevance going forward.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, Fox News has somehow managed to

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Speaker 1: maintain an audience at five o'clock. I believe that's the

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Speaker 1: hour of three point three million, sixty eight percent of

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Speaker 1: the cable news audience. Not a surprise, but certainly the

477
00:37:27,915 --> 00:37:32,595
Speaker 1: percentage is a surprise. MSNBC, flailing about in its own way,

478
00:37:32,955 --> 00:37:35,675
Speaker 1: is at a little over one million viewers, twenty one

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Speaker 1: percent of the audience. And Tapper is now down to

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00:37:38,395 --> 00:37:43,635
Speaker 1: eleven percent. It is not just his book that has

481
00:37:43,715 --> 00:37:46,435
Speaker 1: done this to Jake Tapper. CNN has been in a

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Speaker 1: death spiral for three years now since its new owners,

483
00:37:50,475 --> 00:37:56,595
Speaker 1: Warner Bros. Discovery of fascism threw CNN into reverse and

484
00:37:56,715 --> 00:38:00,435
Speaker 1: took it from a news organization ready and willing at

485
00:38:00,435 --> 00:38:04,555
Speaker 1: all times to accurately criticize and analyze the madness of

486
00:38:04,795 --> 00:38:08,795
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and the Republican Party and its efforts to

487
00:38:08,915 --> 00:38:12,435
Speaker 1: eliminate democracy in this country. Threw it into reverse and

488
00:38:12,515 --> 00:38:16,155
Speaker 1: made it increasingly into a platform in which people on

489
00:38:16,275 --> 00:38:21,595
Speaker 1: it hoared themselves out for fascism and Trump. First they

490
00:38:21,675 --> 00:38:24,635
Speaker 1: hired Chris Lickt, then a bunch of foreigners who had

491
00:38:24,635 --> 00:38:28,235
Speaker 1: had to flee England after they failed in TV news there.

492
00:38:28,715 --> 00:38:32,595
Speaker 1: Then they platformed the likes of Scott Jennings mugging to camera,

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00:38:33,395 --> 00:38:36,515
Speaker 1: setting up a series of scream fests at night, the

494
00:38:36,635 --> 00:38:39,595
Speaker 1: kind of yelling shows that went out of vogue in

495
00:38:39,635 --> 00:38:44,555
Speaker 1: cable news when John Stewart clotheslined Tucker Carlson on CNN

496
00:38:44,795 --> 00:38:48,235
Speaker 1: in the year two thousand and two, and most notably,

497
00:38:49,595 --> 00:38:54,795
Speaker 1: the descent of CNN accelerated last year when Jake Tapper

498
00:38:55,155 --> 00:38:58,435
Speaker 1: refused to fact check Trump as Trump lied his way

499
00:38:58,475 --> 00:39:02,755
Speaker 1: through the debate with Biden. That was the shark moment.

500
00:39:04,715 --> 00:39:07,955
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper has been self destructing for a long time.

501
00:39:08,035 --> 00:39:11,275
Speaker 1: The book is just the newest thing on the list.

502
00:39:12,075 --> 00:39:15,355
Speaker 1: Like when he compared the Biden story to Watergate, Like

503
00:39:15,435 --> 00:39:18,715
Speaker 1: when he apologized to Lara Trump, Like every time he

504
00:39:18,795 --> 00:39:20,795
Speaker 1: held the book up and sold it like he was

505
00:39:20,995 --> 00:39:24,995
Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly trying to read you and sell you the

506
00:39:25,035 --> 00:39:29,195
Speaker 1: story of how they killed Bill O'Reilly's career, whatever his

507
00:39:29,275 --> 00:39:34,555
Speaker 1: latest book is called. Like when Jake went on Meghan

508
00:39:34,635 --> 00:39:41,555
Speaker 1: Kelly's Nazi cast appalling, apparently unauthorized by his employers. This

509
00:39:41,635 --> 00:39:44,675
Speaker 1: has happened before in this business. People have betrayed their

510
00:39:44,715 --> 00:39:47,155
Speaker 1: own ethics and standards, and by the time it shows

511
00:39:47,235 --> 00:39:50,675
Speaker 1: up in the ratings a one quarter loss in one year,

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Speaker 1: they're professionally dead. Jake. By the way, CNN, if Jake

513
00:39:56,315 --> 00:39:59,955
Speaker 1: Tapper really went on Meghan Kelly's show without your CNN approval,

514
00:40:00,195 --> 00:40:02,755
Speaker 1: you know it says in his contract, like it says

515
00:40:02,795 --> 00:40:07,875
Speaker 1: in everybody else's contract, can't make media appearances without authorization.

516
00:40:09,035 --> 00:40:11,315
Speaker 1: If he did it without authorization, you can fire him.

517
00:40:11,355 --> 00:40:15,835
Speaker 1: For cause and not owe him a dime. Tapper just

518
00:40:15,875 --> 00:40:34,315
Speaker 1: saying today's other worst person, and the world. The further

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00:40:34,435 --> 00:40:38,235
Speaker 1: we have gotten from Tuesday, July fourth, nineteen thirty nine,

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00:40:38,755 --> 00:40:42,275
Speaker 1: the further it has been evident that this was probably

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Speaker 1: the most poignant day in the history of American sports,

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00:40:47,195 --> 00:40:49,915
Speaker 1: and one of the most poignant days in the history

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Speaker 1: of America. That day was when sixty one, eight hundred

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Speaker 1: and eight people crowded into Yankee Stadium in New York

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Speaker 1: to hear lou Garrigg say goodbye. He had been stricken

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00:41:01,515 --> 00:41:05,235
Speaker 1: by als, and as much as everybody tried to pretend

527
00:41:05,275 --> 00:41:07,795
Speaker 1: it was not a death sentence, or at least not

528
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Speaker 1: likely to be a death sentence, it is in retrospect

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00:41:11,475 --> 00:41:16,595
Speaker 1: clear that nearly all the fans knew. It was in

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00:41:16,595 --> 00:41:20,315
Speaker 1: fact so clear at the time that the Yankees and

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Speaker 1: even officials of the city of New York were insistent

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Speaker 1: that during the ceremonies between games of that day's doubleheader,

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Speaker 1: that Lou Geig should not make a speech. They literally

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Speaker 1: believed that the amount of grief in the ballpark among

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Speaker 1: the fans and the employees and the players would somehow

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00:41:43,475 --> 00:41:47,875
Speaker 1: be too much for at minimum the mental health of

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Speaker 1: everybody there. They did not know how that much sadness

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00:41:53,555 --> 00:41:58,835
Speaker 1: could be handled in public. Of course, lou gereg spoke anyway,

539
00:41:59,755 --> 00:42:01,595
Speaker 1: and all he did was give one of the bravest

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Speaker 1: and most moving speeches in human history, one that is

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Speaker 1: repeat word for word in ballparks and elsewhere every year

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00:42:10,395 --> 00:42:15,635
Speaker 1: on its anniversary, July fourth. So we view that July fourth,

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00:42:15,715 --> 00:42:19,115
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty nine as a day of grief and sorrow

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00:42:19,195 --> 00:42:22,715
Speaker 1: and love and of that rarest of emotions, of our

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00:42:23,075 --> 00:42:27,835
Speaker 1: shared awareness of the implacability of death, and that our

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00:42:27,915 --> 00:42:34,035
Speaker 1: victories over death must be temporary and symbolic. We see

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00:42:34,075 --> 00:42:38,275
Speaker 1: through hindsight lou Garrig Day Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, New York, Tuesday,

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00:42:38,475 --> 00:42:43,435
Speaker 1: July fourth, nineteen thirty nine, as a unanimous gathering bathed

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00:42:43,675 --> 00:42:48,555
Speaker 1: in sympathy and empathy, representing the sympathy and empathy of

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Speaker 1: a nation. And we do that because the baseball world

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Speaker 1: and the media have spent the intervening decades burying the

552
00:42:59,555 --> 00:43:02,715
Speaker 1: work of those in its ranks in nineteen thirty nine

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00:43:02,915 --> 00:43:07,995
Speaker 1: who approached lou Garrigg's illness as either prepare yourself as

554
00:43:08,075 --> 00:43:14,195
Speaker 1: either a fraud or a conspiracy. I am going to

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00:43:14,235 --> 00:43:18,115
Speaker 1: read you in full two articles about lou Gereg that

556
00:43:18,355 --> 00:43:23,195
Speaker 1: must be tied for the all time worst pieces written

557
00:43:23,315 --> 00:43:27,515
Speaker 1: in American media history and on the list of the

558
00:43:27,555 --> 00:43:32,475
Speaker 1: worst things ever written for publication in the English language.

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00:43:32,635 --> 00:43:35,795
Speaker 1: The second article is actually not from nineteen thirty nine.

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00:43:35,955 --> 00:43:39,155
Speaker 1: It's from August nineteen forty, and in it, the sports

561
00:43:39,315 --> 00:43:42,595
Speaker 1: editor of the New York Daily News all but accuses

562
00:43:42,715 --> 00:43:45,755
Speaker 1: lou Gereg of being what we would now call a

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00:43:45,915 --> 00:43:50,555
Speaker 1: super spreader and speculates that Gereg has infected all the

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00:43:50,675 --> 00:43:56,435
Speaker 1: other Yankee players with his disease. The first article actually

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00:43:56,515 --> 00:44:00,555
Speaker 1: ran in hundreds of American newspapers on the night of Monday,

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00:44:00,635 --> 00:44:04,635
Speaker 1: July third, nineteen thirty nine, but mostly the morning of July.

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Speaker 1: It was in a column distributed by United Press, the

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00:44:08,475 --> 00:44:12,355
Speaker 1: precursors to United Press International, where I made my full

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00:44:12,395 --> 00:44:15,795
Speaker 1: time professional debut forty years later, almost to the day,

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00:44:16,315 --> 00:44:20,075
Speaker 1: in July of nineteen seventy nine. When I worked there,

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Speaker 1: I had never heard about this article. Throughout the bulk

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00:44:24,235 --> 00:44:26,795
Speaker 1: of my career, I had never heard about this article.

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00:44:27,115 --> 00:44:30,475
Speaker 1: I did not know of this article until the microfilm

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00:44:30,555 --> 00:44:34,995
Speaker 1: files of newspapers migrated onto the Internet in the late nineties,

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Speaker 1: and to this day I have never found any indication

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00:44:39,115 --> 00:44:44,115
Speaker 1: that the writer ever apologized or ever admitted his stupidity

577
00:44:44,155 --> 00:44:51,075
Speaker 1: and coarseness and insensitivity and awfully timed glibness. The writer's

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00:44:51,155 --> 00:44:56,875
Speaker 1: name was Jack Cuddy, Jack Cutty c Uddy. He began

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Speaker 1: as a news reporter for the Milwaukee Journal. After World

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00:44:59,955 --> 00:45:03,835
Speaker 1: War One, he worked for newspapers in Chicago, Miami, New Orleans,

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00:45:03,955 --> 00:45:06,635
Speaker 1: and then joined United Press in nineteen twenty six. He

582
00:45:06,675 --> 00:45:10,275
Speaker 1: was a news reporter. He helped cover Lindbergh's solo flight

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00:45:10,355 --> 00:45:13,155
Speaker 1: over the Atlantic in nineteen twenty seven, and then in

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00:45:13,235 --> 00:45:17,035
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty two they made him their primary boxing reporter,

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00:45:17,195 --> 00:45:20,595
Speaker 1: and they also assigned him to write columns about all

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00:45:20,675 --> 00:45:24,675
Speaker 1: sports that would sent out on the up wire to

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00:45:24,835 --> 00:45:27,995
Speaker 1: all of the newspapers that subscribed. We don't know how

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00:45:27,995 --> 00:45:34,275
Speaker 1: many of them ran this. Their sports editors probably found

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00:45:34,315 --> 00:45:37,835
Speaker 1: out just how many of their readers actually read it,

590
00:45:38,635 --> 00:45:41,235
Speaker 1: because by the time Jack Cutty wrote this, he had

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00:45:41,275 --> 00:45:45,035
Speaker 1: been a national sports reporter for seven years and a

592
00:45:45,155 --> 00:45:49,715
Speaker 1: journalist a hard news reporter for about fifteen before that.

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00:45:50,755 --> 00:45:56,195
Speaker 1: This still is what untold readers of papers that carried

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00:45:56,235 --> 00:46:01,075
Speaker 1: the work of United Press read just hours before lou

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00:46:01,195 --> 00:46:05,755
Speaker 1: Garrig gave his Luckiest man on the Face of the

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00:46:05,835 --> 00:46:13,395
Speaker 1: Earth speech In this corner, Jack Cutty rights on the

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00:46:13,475 --> 00:46:21,195
Speaker 1: retirement of lou Gereg by Jack Cutdy, New York. There's

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00:46:21,235 --> 00:46:23,995
Speaker 1: only one thing I see wrong about the celebration of

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00:46:24,035 --> 00:46:27,275
Speaker 1: the fourth of July, and that's the national shedding of

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00:46:27,355 --> 00:46:30,915
Speaker 1: tears about a husky named lou Gereg, which will be

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00:46:30,995 --> 00:46:35,635
Speaker 1: climaxed with a low Garreg Appreciation Day during the doubleheader

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00:46:35,675 --> 00:46:40,235
Speaker 1: between the Yanks and Washington at Yankee Stadium. The play

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00:46:40,315 --> 00:46:43,355
Speaker 1: rights for this Garreg business at the stadium are making

604
00:46:43,355 --> 00:46:47,915
Speaker 1: the affair so touching. I understand that even the little

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00:46:47,955 --> 00:46:51,115
Speaker 1: boys and gals of our vast land will be unable

606
00:46:51,155 --> 00:46:54,755
Speaker 1: to set off firecrackers and things because of the tears

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00:46:54,835 --> 00:46:59,795
Speaker 1: that trickle down upon their matches and punks. The whole

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00:46:59,835 --> 00:47:04,315
Speaker 1: business seems goofy and uncalled for. To me, I see

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00:47:04,315 --> 00:47:06,675
Speaker 1: no res and for pulling a pall over a holiday

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00:47:06,915 --> 00:47:10,755
Speaker 1: when everyone should be having lots of fun and peanuts

611
00:47:10,835 --> 00:47:15,675
Speaker 1: popcorn cracker Jackson hot dogs. Particularly, I see no reason

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00:47:15,715 --> 00:47:19,515
Speaker 1: for pulling this Yankee publicity stunt about Gerreg, who was

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00:47:19,555 --> 00:47:21,795
Speaker 1: the last man in the world who would go for it,

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00:47:21,955 --> 00:47:25,515
Speaker 1: unless the Yankee brass Hats and New York Baseball Riders

615
00:47:25,795 --> 00:47:30,995
Speaker 1: snaffled him and forced him into it. Gerrek knows, and

616
00:47:31,075 --> 00:47:33,875
Speaker 1: so should everyone else connected with baseball, that the thirty

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00:47:33,915 --> 00:47:36,115
Speaker 1: six year old first basement of the Yanks was through

618
00:47:36,195 --> 00:47:38,915
Speaker 1: with top flight play just as soon as he showed

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00:47:38,955 --> 00:47:41,635
Speaker 1: up at the Yanks training camp at Saint Pete. But

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00:47:41,835 --> 00:47:44,555
Speaker 1: because lou was the Iron Horse, the man who had

621
00:47:44,555 --> 00:47:47,355
Speaker 1: written into the records that all time mark of two

622
00:47:47,915 --> 00:47:51,395
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty consecutive championship games, his fade out

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00:47:51,435 --> 00:47:55,555
Speaker 1: had to be different from that of the ordinary player. Accordingly,

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00:47:55,955 --> 00:47:58,995
Speaker 1: Greg was sent to a nationally known center of health

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00:47:59,035 --> 00:48:04,355
Speaker 1: investigation to see what was wrong with him. I'll guarantee

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00:48:04,915 --> 00:48:07,795
Speaker 1: that if ninety percent of the men, women, and children

627
00:48:07,835 --> 00:48:10,835
Speaker 1: in America were sent to that particular spot, we would

628
00:48:10,915 --> 00:48:14,235
Speaker 1: learn that each and all had something wrong with them,

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00:48:14,355 --> 00:48:19,115
Speaker 1: even if it were only halatosis, athletes, foot warts, or

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00:48:19,475 --> 00:48:26,515
Speaker 1: bo I've forgotten exactly what they said was wrong with Greg. Oh, yes,

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Speaker 1: I do recall that the first hospital report indicated infantile

632
00:48:31,035 --> 00:48:36,515
Speaker 1: paralysis of a very vague breed, but later the experts

633
00:48:36,555 --> 00:48:40,595
Speaker 1: explained it wasn't infantile paralysis at all, it was something else.

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00:48:41,315 --> 00:48:44,315
Speaker 1: The ailment had one of those high falutin names that

635
00:48:44,395 --> 00:48:50,235
Speaker 1: only people with plenty of dough or prestige can have. Personally,

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00:48:50,635 --> 00:48:53,715
Speaker 1: i don't care what Grek has got, but I'd like

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00:48:53,795 --> 00:48:58,195
Speaker 1: to exchange my body for his during the next forty

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00:48:58,315 --> 00:49:01,275
Speaker 1: or fifty years, let us say, And I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: I'd do all right. Regardless of the experts argument over

640
00:49:04,315 --> 00:49:08,475
Speaker 1: the last or Greek declensions of what lariping Loo may

641
00:49:08,955 --> 00:49:12,675
Speaker 1: or may not have, it seems to me that greg

642
00:49:12,835 --> 00:49:15,875
Speaker 1: was merely getting too old to play hell for leather baseball,

643
00:49:16,195 --> 00:49:19,395
Speaker 1: and that the scientists of ailments or advertising gave him

644
00:49:19,435 --> 00:49:23,235
Speaker 1: a graceful exit. But what really brings water to my

645
00:49:23,395 --> 00:49:26,315
Speaker 1: eyes on this particular fourth of July is the plight

646
00:49:26,795 --> 00:49:30,515
Speaker 1: of Monty Stratton, a lad who was right in his prime,

647
00:49:30,595 --> 00:49:33,835
Speaker 1: only twenty five years old, a lad who never had

648
00:49:33,875 --> 00:49:37,275
Speaker 1: the chance to amass the fortune that must be Garrick's

649
00:49:38,235 --> 00:49:42,555
Speaker 1: gerreg too old for championship Baseball will be out there

650
00:49:42,555 --> 00:49:46,235
Speaker 1: tomorrow with his mysterious ailment, able to get about as

651
00:49:46,315 --> 00:49:50,115
Speaker 1: actively as any one of his piano leg build should

652
00:49:50,155 --> 00:49:53,875
Speaker 1: at thirty six. But poor Monty Stratton is hobbling about

653
00:49:53,875 --> 00:49:57,395
Speaker 1: the coaches box of the Chicago White Sox with an

654
00:49:57,595 --> 00:50:02,235
Speaker 1: artificial leg, clinking about where his own right leg should be.

655
00:50:03,635 --> 00:50:06,515
Speaker 1: There is no question about what happened to Stratton. He

656
00:50:06,675 --> 00:50:11,035
Speaker 1: shot himself in the leg accidentally while hunting down Texas

657
00:50:11,035 --> 00:50:14,075
Speaker 1: Way last November, and the right leg had to be

658
00:50:14,195 --> 00:50:17,955
Speaker 1: amputated at the knee. At the time this accident happened,

659
00:50:17,995 --> 00:50:20,195
Speaker 1: Stratton stood out as one of the best right handed

660
00:50:20,235 --> 00:50:23,635
Speaker 1: flingers in the American League. They gave him a Stratton

661
00:50:23,715 --> 00:50:26,675
Speaker 1: Day in Chicago this season and he got about twenty

662
00:50:26,755 --> 00:50:29,435
Speaker 1: grand out of it, about the same as his salary

663
00:50:29,475 --> 00:50:34,555
Speaker 1: for a year. Gerrig has been named non playing captain

664
00:50:34,635 --> 00:50:37,995
Speaker 1: for the All Star Interleague Game at Yankee Stadium a

665
00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:41,435
Speaker 1: week from Tuesday, along with tomorrow's Garreg Day. But it

666
00:50:41,515 --> 00:50:45,475
Speaker 1: seems to me that poor Monty Stratton could have been

667
00:50:45,475 --> 00:50:49,115
Speaker 1: appointed batting practice pitcher at least for the All Star Game.

668
00:50:49,955 --> 00:50:53,035
Speaker 1: And if we've got to shed tears tomorrow for some

669
00:50:53,355 --> 00:50:59,675
Speaker 1: afflicted ballplayer, let's give them off for poor Monty instead

670
00:50:59,715 --> 00:51:10,075
Speaker 1: of for lucky lou Jack Cutty everybody. Twenty three months later,

671
00:51:10,595 --> 00:51:15,315
Speaker 1: lou gereg was dead. Monty Stratton, the innocent bystander in

672
00:51:15,355 --> 00:51:18,275
Speaker 1: this hindenburg of a sports column who had been on

673
00:51:18,315 --> 00:51:22,195
Speaker 1: a possible Hall of Fame trajectory, actually made a comeback

674
00:51:22,715 --> 00:51:25,915
Speaker 1: on one leg, and seven years later in the low

675
00:51:25,955 --> 00:51:28,675
Speaker 1: minor leagues, he won eighteen games pitching for the Sherman

676
00:51:28,795 --> 00:51:32,795
Speaker 1: Twins of the East Texas League. He pitched sporadically thereafter

677
00:51:32,875 --> 00:51:36,035
Speaker 1: until the age of forty one. By then a film

678
00:51:36,115 --> 00:51:39,035
Speaker 1: version based on his life had been made. It starred

679
00:51:39,115 --> 00:51:44,315
Speaker 1: Jimmy Stewart. Monty Stratton died in nineteen eighty two, seven

680
00:51:44,395 --> 00:51:47,235
Speaker 1: years and one week after the writer, Jack Cutty died.

681
00:51:48,155 --> 00:51:51,595
Speaker 1: Jack Cutty had himself died thirty four years after Lou

682
00:51:51,675 --> 00:51:55,235
Speaker 1: Garrig died, and thirty six years after he had offered

683
00:51:55,235 --> 00:51:58,795
Speaker 1: to trade bodies with Lou Gereg. Not only did mister

684
00:51:58,835 --> 00:52:02,275
Speaker 1: Cutty never apparently correct the Garreg article, but United Press

685
00:52:02,275 --> 00:52:04,515
Speaker 1: apparently did not punish him in any way for having

686
00:52:04,675 --> 00:52:08,195
Speaker 1: written it. He continued to cover boxing for UP and

687
00:52:08,435 --> 00:52:12,355
Speaker 1: UPI for another twenty five years, and his obituary appeared

688
00:52:12,355 --> 00:52:16,435
Speaker 1: in the New York Times. It did not mention his

689
00:52:16,555 --> 00:52:21,755
Speaker 1: column about Lou Garrick, but a man named Jimmy Powers

690
00:52:21,795 --> 00:52:24,235
Speaker 1: died in February of nineteen ninety five. He too got

691
00:52:24,235 --> 00:52:26,355
Speaker 1: an oh bit in The Times, and it too did

692
00:52:26,355 --> 00:52:31,195
Speaker 1: not mention his Lou Garrick article, which is, believe it

693
00:52:31,315 --> 00:52:36,795
Speaker 1: or not, probably much worse than Jack Cutties. Jimmy Powers

694
00:52:36,915 --> 00:52:40,675
Speaker 1: article appeared on Sunday, August eighteenth, nineteen forty. It covered

695
00:52:40,755 --> 00:52:43,195
Speaker 1: much of two pages in the New York Daily News.

696
00:52:43,595 --> 00:52:47,115
Speaker 1: Powers was sports editor there from nineteen thirty six until

697
00:52:47,115 --> 00:52:51,275
Speaker 1: his retirement in nineteen fifty nine. He would eventually grudgingly,

698
00:52:51,595 --> 00:52:56,715
Speaker 1: sparingly apologize for this uneducated dreck that he wrote. But

699
00:52:56,835 --> 00:52:59,635
Speaker 1: I worked with people at the start of my career

700
00:52:59,835 --> 00:53:02,395
Speaker 1: who had worked with him. It was only about twenty

701
00:53:02,515 --> 00:53:06,595
Speaker 1: years between us, they said, was clear that he continued

702
00:53:06,635 --> 00:53:10,155
Speaker 1: to believe that it was likely that he was right,

703
00:53:10,635 --> 00:53:15,555
Speaker 1: and that Greg had somehow infected his Yankee teammates with

704
00:53:15,715 --> 00:53:20,915
Speaker 1: some kind of milder version of als that cost them

705
00:53:21,035 --> 00:53:26,875
Speaker 1: the nineteen forty American League pennant No, I am not

706
00:53:27,035 --> 00:53:32,195
Speaker 1: kidding The New York Daily News, August eighteenth, nineteen forty.

707
00:53:32,875 --> 00:53:40,635
Speaker 1: The headline read, has Polio hit the Yankees? The Yankees, who,

708
00:53:40,675 --> 00:53:42,555
Speaker 1: for the past four years have been one of the

709
00:53:42,555 --> 00:53:47,435
Speaker 1: greatest baseball machines in history and almost universally selected to

710
00:53:47,435 --> 00:53:53,635
Speaker 1: win the pennet again have collapsed. Why has the mysterious

711
00:53:53,835 --> 00:53:59,795
Speaker 1: polio germ which felled lou Geig also struck his former teammates,

712
00:54:00,115 --> 00:54:03,875
Speaker 1: turning a once great team into a floundering non contender.

713
00:54:04,955 --> 00:54:11,075
Speaker 1: According to overwhelming opinion of the medical profession, poliomylitis, similar

714
00:54:11,115 --> 00:54:17,395
Speaker 1: to infantile paralysis, is communicable. The Yanks were exposed to

715
00:54:17,435 --> 00:54:21,715
Speaker 1: it at its most acute stage. They played ball with

716
00:54:21,795 --> 00:54:25,315
Speaker 1: the afflicted Garrig, dressed and undressed in the locker room

717
00:54:25,395 --> 00:54:29,995
Speaker 1: with him, traveled, played cards and ate with him. Isn't

718
00:54:30,035 --> 00:54:37,155
Speaker 1: it possible some of them also became infected. It's hard

719
00:54:37,195 --> 00:54:42,955
Speaker 1: to believe mere coincidence can explain away the wholesale failure

720
00:54:42,995 --> 00:54:46,915
Speaker 1: of the individuals. In Gerrig's case, one of the most

721
00:54:46,915 --> 00:54:52,595
Speaker 1: prominent symptoms was loss of muscular power. The same symptom

722
00:54:52,715 --> 00:54:55,475
Speaker 1: can be found in many of the Yanks today. So far,

723
00:54:56,315 --> 00:55:00,275
Speaker 1: no one has been able to advance a satisfactory reason

724
00:55:00,355 --> 00:55:07,475
Speaker 1: for it, not without precedent. The possibility of wholesale team

725
00:55:07,515 --> 00:55:11,635
Speaker 1: infection is not entirely without precedent. Last fall, the Loyola

726
00:55:11,715 --> 00:55:15,035
Speaker 1: University football team was faced with the same menace from

727
00:55:15,195 --> 00:55:20,355
Speaker 1: infantile paralysis, a greatly similar disease communicated in the same manner.

728
00:55:20,875 --> 00:55:23,675
Speaker 1: A player collapsed in the dressing room was rushed to

729
00:55:23,675 --> 00:55:26,635
Speaker 1: a hospital where it was determined he had developed paralysis.

730
00:55:27,035 --> 00:55:31,515
Speaker 1: The entire squad was quarantined and examined. Two other players

731
00:55:31,555 --> 00:55:36,435
Speaker 1: were discovered bearing the germ caught from their unfortunate teammate. Luckily,

732
00:55:36,515 --> 00:55:40,875
Speaker 1: the infection was detected at the earliest stage. Injections killed

733
00:55:40,915 --> 00:55:46,515
Speaker 1: the germ and brought complete recovery. In the Textbook of

734
00:55:46,595 --> 00:55:50,395
Speaker 1: Nervous Disorders by Robert Bing, professor of neurology at the

735
00:55:50,475 --> 00:55:55,675
Speaker 1: University of Basel in Switzerland, are found the following pertinent facts. One,

736
00:55:56,275 --> 00:55:59,275
Speaker 1: the disease appears in a majority of cases between the

737
00:55:59,315 --> 00:56:03,955
Speaker 1: ages of thirty and fifty five. Most of the players

738
00:56:03,955 --> 00:56:07,435
Speaker 1: with the anksor in their thirties, with the exception of Gordon,

739
00:56:07,915 --> 00:56:12,355
Speaker 1: the others are close to them. Two. Among causes found

740
00:56:12,395 --> 00:56:16,475
Speaker 1: for the disease are over exposure to cold and exhausting

741
00:56:16,555 --> 00:56:23,875
Speaker 1: disease or capital letters over exertion. Ballplayers certainly are called

742
00:56:23,955 --> 00:56:26,915
Speaker 1: upon for more than normal exertion, as were the Yanks

743
00:56:26,955 --> 00:56:31,915
Speaker 1: at a time when they were exposed to the germ. Three,

744
00:56:32,115 --> 00:56:35,675
Speaker 1: Regarding the effect on the legs, where it probably would

745
00:56:35,715 --> 00:56:39,595
Speaker 1: be most noticeable in ballplayers for a comparatively long period

746
00:56:39,595 --> 00:56:43,155
Speaker 1: of time, the lower extremities remain normal, except for marked

747
00:56:43,475 --> 00:56:48,555
Speaker 1: exaggeration of their reflexes. Atrophy of the leg muscles may

748
00:56:48,595 --> 00:56:53,795
Speaker 1: not occur until the late stages of the disease. Thus

749
00:56:53,835 --> 00:56:56,475
Speaker 1: a player might be able to run and move as

750
00:56:56,515 --> 00:56:59,715
Speaker 1: well as ever while the germ was sapping his strength

751
00:56:59,915 --> 00:57:04,635
Speaker 1: in less noticeable parts such as hands, arms, and shoulders.

752
00:57:06,275 --> 00:57:11,155
Speaker 1: Club players worried. Club officials and players have been worried

753
00:57:11,155 --> 00:57:15,315
Speaker 1: that such a general infection existed. They took special precautionary

754
00:57:15,355 --> 00:57:20,675
Speaker 1: measures to prevent it. Individual drinking cups were provided. Each

755
00:57:20,755 --> 00:57:24,715
Speaker 1: player took care to use only his own towel. Special

756
00:57:24,795 --> 00:57:33,195
Speaker 1: provisions were made for laundering uniforms and underclothing among the players.

757
00:57:33,515 --> 00:57:35,995
Speaker 1: Bill Dickey last winter made a special trip to the

758
00:57:36,035 --> 00:57:40,515
Speaker 1: Mayo Brothers Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for a thorough physical checkup.

759
00:57:41,835 --> 00:57:45,555
Speaker 1: This coming winter Atlee, Donald rad Ralph and several others

760
00:57:45,875 --> 00:57:50,795
Speaker 1: are considering similar checkups. The fear of the disease had

761
00:57:50,795 --> 00:57:53,355
Speaker 1: a psychological effect. It preyed on the minds of the

762
00:57:53,435 --> 00:57:57,675
Speaker 1: athletes exaggerated minor aches, pains, and ailments which ordinarily they

763
00:57:57,715 --> 00:58:02,315
Speaker 1: would have ignored. Practically, the entire club had noticed Garrig's symptoms,

764
00:58:02,395 --> 00:58:06,075
Speaker 1: became aware of, and worried about nerve and muscular reactions

765
00:58:06,195 --> 00:58:11,115
Speaker 1: they had never been conscious of previously. Club officials believe

766
00:58:11,155 --> 00:58:15,835
Speaker 1: they have finally defeated this psychological sword of damocles. These

767
00:58:15,955 --> 00:58:19,235
Speaker 1: nervous and muscular reactions could always be traced to an injury,

768
00:58:19,355 --> 00:58:24,075
Speaker 1: a slight bump or bruise. This apparently was the savior

769
00:58:24,795 --> 00:58:27,915
Speaker 1: for in Greg's case, no injury could be traced down

770
00:58:28,075 --> 00:58:34,195
Speaker 1: to explain his early symptoms. However, the shadow of doubt

771
00:58:34,675 --> 00:58:38,875
Speaker 1: must still linger, for in the same volume by Professor

772
00:58:38,955 --> 00:58:43,475
Speaker 1: Byng is this quote, I have described a case of

773
00:58:43,555 --> 00:58:48,915
Speaker 1: traumatic median neuritis which later developed into a typical lateral

774
00:58:49,675 --> 00:58:55,515
Speaker 1: ammiothrophic sclerosis. The note the latter is the medical term

775
00:58:55,835 --> 00:58:59,315
Speaker 1: for Gareg's ailment and indicates that the particular form of

776
00:58:59,355 --> 00:59:08,715
Speaker 1: paralysis which afflicted Gareg might develop from neritis. Alderman note no,

777
00:59:08,915 --> 00:59:15,155
Speaker 1: not quite. Doctor Robert F. Walsh, Yank physician and surgeon,

778
00:59:15,475 --> 00:59:20,395
Speaker 1: and Earl V. Painter, Yank trainer, each nationally famous in

779
00:59:20,435 --> 00:59:23,515
Speaker 1: his profession are the men closest to the physical well

780
00:59:23,515 --> 00:59:27,195
Speaker 1: being of the players. They answer emphatically that no such

781
00:59:27,235 --> 00:59:30,955
Speaker 1: condition exists on the club. Here is doctor Walsh's opinion quote.

782
00:59:31,155 --> 00:59:33,955
Speaker 1: Though at first there was a very definite possibility of

783
00:59:33,995 --> 00:59:37,595
Speaker 1: the entire team becoming afflicted, there is now no indication

784
00:59:37,675 --> 00:59:40,715
Speaker 1: of it. Had the disease stricken, there would have been

785
00:59:40,755 --> 00:59:44,275
Speaker 1: a noticeable change in the physical appearance of those to

786
00:59:44,275 --> 00:59:46,875
Speaker 1: whom the disease had been communicated. There would not be

787
00:59:46,955 --> 00:59:51,155
Speaker 1: the slightest doubt remaining that the stricken individual or individuals

788
00:59:51,395 --> 00:59:58,315
Speaker 1: were infected. Unquote. Medics support Walsh. Doctor Walsh's statement is

789
00:59:58,355 --> 01:00:01,235
Speaker 1: supported by the current medical belief that the infection will

790
01:00:01,275 --> 01:00:05,355
Speaker 1: reveal itself within six weeks of the time of contact. However,

791
01:00:06,435 --> 01:00:09,715
Speaker 1: with the medical profession admitting a meager knowledge of the disease,

792
01:00:09,955 --> 01:00:13,715
Speaker 1: there is the possibility a lingering means of infection exists,

793
01:00:14,075 --> 01:00:18,115
Speaker 1: that the disease may be communicated in a different form,

794
01:00:18,435 --> 01:00:20,955
Speaker 1: and that it may be chronic as well as acute,

795
01:00:21,035 --> 01:00:25,115
Speaker 1: as in Gerrig's case. Thus, the possibility that the Yanks

796
01:00:25,155 --> 01:00:30,635
Speaker 1: are so infected still exists. Doc Painter, in an equally

797
01:00:30,915 --> 01:00:35,435
Speaker 1: definite denial takes a different slant. He says, quote, in

798
01:00:35,555 --> 01:00:38,875
Speaker 1: view of the circumstances, I can understand how one might

799
01:00:38,915 --> 01:00:42,195
Speaker 1: be led to a plausible hypothesis that the team has

800
01:00:42,275 --> 01:00:46,195
Speaker 1: been stricken with this disease. However, I have absolutely no

801
01:00:46,355 --> 01:00:50,075
Speaker 1: belief in it. There is no similarity between the symptoms

802
01:00:50,075 --> 01:00:55,195
Speaker 1: of these individual cases and Garrigs Lou suffered from deterioration

803
01:00:55,355 --> 01:00:58,195
Speaker 1: of the nervous system. The trouble with these other boys

804
01:00:58,275 --> 01:01:02,475
Speaker 1: is something entirely different. To point out one example, Ralph

805
01:01:02,515 --> 01:01:06,875
Speaker 1: suffers from a blood rather than an nervous disorder. Are

806
01:01:07,035 --> 01:01:12,555
Speaker 1: Yanks infected? Nevertheless, there is another point to be remembered.

807
01:01:13,235 --> 01:01:18,315
Speaker 1: Gerg slipped perceptibly as a ballplayer about mid season in

808
01:01:18,395 --> 01:01:22,475
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty eight. Almost a year later, when he reported

809
01:01:22,475 --> 01:01:25,795
Speaker 1: for spring training, there was still no suspicion he was

810
01:01:25,835 --> 01:01:29,235
Speaker 1: afflicted by this disease. In fact, not until June, when

811
01:01:29,275 --> 01:01:33,675
Speaker 1: he visited the Mayo clinic was his ailment definitely determined.

812
01:01:35,195 --> 01:01:38,475
Speaker 1: All of which apparently leaves a complete and final answer

813
01:01:38,755 --> 01:01:41,875
Speaker 1: still to be made. Something has happened to the Yanks

814
01:01:42,595 --> 01:01:45,275
Speaker 1: if Greg passed through a stage in which the cause

815
01:01:45,315 --> 01:01:50,195
Speaker 1: of his ineffectiveness was undetermined isn't it possible? Such is

816
01:01:50,275 --> 01:01:58,115
Speaker 1: also the case with many of the Yanks today. Jimmy

817
01:01:58,155 --> 01:02:05,035
Speaker 1: Powers article August nineteen forty, accompanying that, by the way,

818
01:02:05,595 --> 01:02:09,955
Speaker 1: which I have spared you, was a sidebar, a two

819
01:02:10,075 --> 01:02:14,715
Speaker 1: or three line analysis of the underperformances of ten specific

820
01:02:14,795 --> 01:02:20,875
Speaker 1: Yankee players, ending in bold faced print with this final

821
01:02:20,915 --> 01:02:27,635
Speaker 1: word from Jimmy Powers. Can coincidence explain these simultaneous ailments?

822
01:02:28,115 --> 01:02:35,995
Speaker 1: Couldn't the polio germ be the common cause? No? It couldn't.

823
01:02:36,035 --> 01:02:44,395
Speaker 1: You idiot that morning that that was published, lou Gegg

824
01:02:44,515 --> 01:02:47,915
Speaker 1: who did not have polio, who did not have the

825
01:02:47,995 --> 01:02:54,915
Speaker 1: other disease described by doctor Bing. Lou Gereg had amiotropic

826
01:02:54,995 --> 01:02:59,155
Speaker 1: lateral sclerosis, and he had two hundred and eighty nine

827
01:02:59,235 --> 01:03:04,235
Speaker 1: more days to live. Jimmy Powers was not suspended by

828
01:03:04,235 --> 01:03:06,515
Speaker 1: the New York Daily News, not demoted, not fired, not

829
01:03:06,595 --> 01:03:09,795
Speaker 1: branded with a scarlet letter a for asshole or anything else.

830
01:03:10,275 --> 01:03:13,035
Speaker 1: In fact, he became one of the first sportswriters to

831
01:03:13,075 --> 01:03:16,755
Speaker 1: move into television as a commentator on NBC's Friday Night

832
01:03:16,795 --> 01:03:23,035
Speaker 1: Fights in the fifties. I did not read you these

833
01:03:23,075 --> 01:03:26,355
Speaker 1: to spoil your July fourth, nor any other of your days,

834
01:03:28,115 --> 01:03:31,915
Speaker 1: nor to darken the commemorations and remembrances of lou Garrick.

835
01:03:33,875 --> 01:03:36,035
Speaker 1: I read them just to provide a little perspective on

836
01:03:36,115 --> 01:03:39,195
Speaker 1: media and opinion and the strongest, most unstoppable force in

837
01:03:39,235 --> 01:03:42,875
Speaker 1: the world, a journalist who thinks he's right even though

838
01:03:42,915 --> 01:03:50,155
Speaker 1: everybody else around him begs him to realize that he's wrong. Occasionally,

839
01:03:50,275 --> 01:03:52,875
Speaker 1: that motivation gives us things like Bob Woodward and Carl

840
01:03:52,915 --> 01:03:57,435
Speaker 1: Bernstein and Watergate reporting. Occasionally it gives us Bob Woodward

841
01:03:57,475 --> 01:03:59,955
Speaker 1: sitting on tapes of Trump admitting as it began that

842
01:03:59,995 --> 01:04:02,955
Speaker 1: COVID would be airborne and a disaster, sitting on those

843
01:04:02,995 --> 01:04:06,555
Speaker 1: tapes until Wodward could get himself a book deal. And

844
01:04:06,635 --> 01:04:11,795
Speaker 1: occasionally it gives us Jack Cuddy implying lou Gegg has

845
01:04:11,835 --> 01:04:17,955
Speaker 1: a cold, and Jimmy Powers insisting lou Gereg had irresponsibly

846
01:04:17,995 --> 01:04:22,395
Speaker 1: infected his teammates with the disease he didn't have, but

847
01:04:22,555 --> 01:04:26,515
Speaker 1: Powers thought he did because part of the original diagnosis

848
01:04:26,555 --> 01:04:31,715
Speaker 1: included a reference to another disease with the word polio

849
01:04:32,315 --> 01:04:50,115
Speaker 1: in it. June two, lou Garrig Day, just a reminder

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Speaker 1: that people like Cutty in Powers have always been with us,

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Speaker 1: only now they're called Jake Tapper. I've done all the

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Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Most

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Speaker 1: of our Countdown music was arranged, produced, and performed by

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Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillipson, our musical directors of Countdown.

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Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Mister Ray on the guitars,

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Speaker 1: bass and drums, mister Shanel handling, orchestration and keyboards. Our

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Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball

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Speaker 1: stadium organist ever now back and in business, Nancy Faust

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Speaker 1: of Your Chicago Vatican City White Sox. The Olderman theme

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Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy of ESPN, Inc.

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Speaker 1: Is our sports music. Other music arranged and performed by

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Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my

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Speaker 1: friend Larry David. Everything else was as ever my fault.

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Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, Day one hundred and thirty four

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Speaker 1: of America held hostage just one three hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: nine days until the scheduled end of Trump's lame duck

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Speaker 1: and lame brained term unless Putin removes him sooner or

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Speaker 1: the actuarial tables do or we do. The next scheduled

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Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. That's right, Tomorrow, Tuesday, that's right. An

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Speaker 1: experimental Headlines edition could be the only one ever, could

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Speaker 1: have an opening segment of seven minutes. We'll see, could

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Speaker 1: be mostly features you wanted more. I'm gonna give it

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Speaker 1: a shot. Might be that I come back to to

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Speaker 1: next week. We'll see how I feel about it. I

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Speaker 1: have a second job now. It's getting kind of busy here.

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Speaker 1: Any who, Enough about me. As always bulletins as the

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Speaker 1: news warrants. Remember Trump is laying the groundwork now to

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Speaker 1: not leave office later. He must be stopped. He must

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Speaker 1: leave office sooner till tomorrow. I'm Keith Olverman. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck.

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For

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